Shelley Carlisle

Shelley Carlisle
Sacramento, California, USA

STATEMENT

Shelley Carlisle is a practicing professional fine art & real estate photographer, collage and experimental video artist. She won the 2023 Collage Artist of the Year Award at the Art Comes Alive competition and show with ADC Fine Art, and in 2022 received the Mills College Nancy Cook Fellowship Award. She exhibits her work in solo and group shows, and juried art fairs throughout California and neighboring states and has been a photographic finalist in many competitions. In 2022 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art degree from Mills College, Oakland, California, and currently resides in Sacramento, California.

BIO

Through my professional landscape and wildlife photography, I have found a path to channel my deep connection with the Divine Feminine and Mother Nature, with the creation of hand-crafted analog Goddess & Visionary collages. I celebrate herstories and revered divinities from ancient and modern cultures that are aligned with the natural cycles of the universe, earth, and the moon, dark and light, death and rebirth. The symbolic and metaphorical representations are focused on the beautiful power of each of these entities, not the devalued, horrific, monsters they were made into by dictatorial religion or the patriarchal Gods. I hope to inspire exploration of your inner Sacred Feminine and reveal a special energy with nature and spirituality. My work is created primarily with my own photography, which I print myself, cut and assemble in my home studio on 1-2.5 inch board, and finish with a matte spray, acrylic or resin.

ARTIST CONTACT

(415) 450-1412
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